A little more than two months are left before the opening of LAMIERA, the international trade show centered on sheet metal forming and sheet metal cutting machines and related technologies, scheduled to take place at Fiera Milano Rho from 10 to 13 May 2023.
In the exhibition halls, the proposal for technologies dedicated to sheet metal cutting will be particularly interesting. The…
Milan, 21 February 2023. This afternoon, during a meeting attended by enterprises, the credit world, institutions, and the press, the first Sustainability Report dedicated to the machine tool sector was presented. It was carried out by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots, and automation systems manufacturers' association, in cooperation with ALTIS, Graduate School…
Enel boosts Ontario battery storage operations, sees more growth
Enel North America, the subsidiary of Italian energy giant Enel Group, nearly doubled its Ontario energy storage capacity in 2022, and plans to add more as part of a multi-billion-dollar North American expansion.
The company aims to develop approximately five gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale renewable and battery energy…
Italian Exports of Stone Machinery and Equipment
Italian exports of machinery and equipment slightly negative in the first 10 months of 2022.
In the first ten months of 2022, the value of Italian exports of machines, tools and other equipment for the processing of natural stone was not as good as for natural stones. On the contrary, it decreased by 2.3% compared to the same period of…
Sales down in last year's balance sheet for all the main types of agricultural machinery. The market downturn, to be considered partly technical after the boom of 2021, is also due to the well-known supply problems and the sharp rises in raw material prices. The demand for machinery, however, remains at high levels, thanks to public incentives. The appropriations for agricultural…
Estimates from FEDERUNACOMA and Comacomp indicate turnover increases of more than 20% for 70% of manufacturers in 2021. Positive indicators also for the first half of 2022, and good future prospects due to electronic technologies, which are becoming increasingly important in the sector and are pushing agricultural mechanics towards the digital transition by the editorial staff…
LAMIERA 2022, the international exhibition dedicated to the industry of sheet-metal forming machine tools and innovative technologies related to the sector, will take place one week earlier: the event is thus scheduled at fieramilano Rho from 18 to 21 May 2022.
The exhibition has been moved up due to a necessary reorganisation in the calendar of the trade fairs held at fieramilano, as a…
EXPO MANUFACTURA which will be held from February 15 th to 17th, 2022, at the Cintermex, ground in Monterrey, Nuevo León is Mexico’s most prominent trade show for machinery and equipment for the manufacturing industry.
The figures of the first post pandemic, in person edition of the trade event are solid: +160,000 attendees, +150,000 sm of exhibition, +7,000 exhibitors, +8,500 brands…
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE IN 2020
Production fell 16.6% due to a drop in exports (-14.9%) and in domestic sales (-20.7%). This is how the pandemic negatively affected the performance of Italy’s Industry of Manufacturers of Glass Processing Machinery and Technologies that closed 2020 with overall sales of 2,027 million Euro.
Imports also fell (-11.1%), causing the domestic market to shrink (-17.2%).…
In the first quarter of 2021, the orders of machine tools collected by Italian manufacturers started to grow again. In particular, the UCIMU index processed by the Economic Studies Department & Business Culture of the Association showed a 48.6% upturn in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 2020. The absolute value of the index was 169 (base 100 in 2015…